Vowel-altered profanity

[Salt Merchant]

Some people seem to detest adaptations of common swear words, producing things like "shet" and "feck" or "fekk".

Let's plump the depths of the discontent here.

[Marauder Moe]

I don't care, though I have difficulty reacting to it as though it were as foul as real swearing, and suspect most others do too.

[X-D]

Hate them, just seem silly.

And have no backing IG, like What exactly is Shet? Plus, no OOC backing, so, simply carries no weight with the player making it more work to react like its a real swear word. Sorry, just cannot react to somebody saying kankfecker...Kankfucker on the other hand.

And just makes the world less harsh...I mean, Supposed to be a harsh world, why soften up the grittiness...specialy considering its a text based game...like adding pink bunnies to the picture.

[Lizzie]

I say, if your character is prone to utter profanities, then go for it. Spell the damned word out. In some games, the admins have actual policies against profanities. But those policies don't exist in Armageddon so I see no reason to type "fek" when I mean "fuck."

[Malken]

Zalanthas is really New Zealand.

Are ya injoyen yoursilf in 'nak ye piece o' shet kunkfecker?

[Maybe42or54]

I don't really have an opinion, but IG, I attribute them saying "shet" as "shit" with an accent.

[Rhyden]

I used to hate them.

But now I love them for some reason.

[Briarfox]

Fek is better then fook.

[Ashes]

They're just part of an accent, to me.

Some people ask ye if y'wanna go t'th'Barrel fer a swig o' ale.

Some people just call you a kank-feckin' piece of shet.

Same thing.

[Fathi]

I always assumed people doing that were doing it to add to their PC's accent, not circumvent actually cursing.

'Feck' is an interesting case, because I have seen it used so often by hardly anyone other than 'Rinthi PCs, that I have come to associate it with that accent. It's very jarring to me to see a southsider or a Tuluki bust out with 'feck' and 'fecker' because I so strongly associate it with the 'Rinth.

[jstorrie]

Slightly lame, but not so much that I'd rag on people for it.

[Kennath]

It's weird for me, if I'm cursing AT someone I will go ahead and freely tell them to fuck off. If I'm cursing for flavor, I tend to use the Zalanthan Feck, or sometimes Fack. Never used shet, because it sounds retarded, and I always imagine it pronounced in spanish, which is probably retarded on my part.

[Zalanthan]

Personally, I hear feck -far- more often than I hear fuck in-game.

Shet is ridiculous and I've thankfully never seen it used.  If you're looking for the feck equivalent to shit I would suggest using shite.

[Zoltan]

For shet and feck, I just assume it's an accent thing. I had a character that said feck instead of fuck before. It was just the accent; the two words had the same meaning for him.

I don't have a preference either way, though.

[Simple]

I would use feck and fuck, shit and shite equally in real life. So I use them equally in Arm. That's just my dialect.

[Ghost]

I don't give much about it but then I do not understand why it is so hard to throw a "Fuck" or a "Shit" so that people go around funny ways.

If it is an accent of the PC though, then it is slightly more understandable.

But remember though, my characters never, ever swear.  Honest.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

I hate it. Stop, you fuckers.

If you're going to cuss, cuss. I like 'Krath' and 'Drov' and shit like that, but the fecks and shets and stuff ... nah. Drop that mess.

[Agent_137]

i don't think cuss words need to have the same force as they do in real life.

so vowel changes are great, in my opinion. I'm here to roleplay, how a cuss word impacts me is unimportant to how i play. in fact, the less the cussword impacts me, the better, so that i can stay truer to my character.

[Forest Junkie]

I use different versions of curse words depending on the accent of my character.

One pc in particular used "fuggin'" for "fuckin'", or sometimes "shat" for "shit". It's just variants of the actual words.

Meh. Who cares.

[Malken]

Feck ye I won't do what ye tell me!
Feck ye I won't do what ye tell me!
Feck ye I won't do what ye tell me, mothakanker!!!

[Rindan]

I can't help but see feck as the wussified version of fuck.  It is like saying "god darn it!" instead of saying "god damn it!"  One sounds like you meant it, the other sounds like Ned Flanders.  To each their own, but I can't help but hear/read feck and shet as mild exclamations rather than the real deal.

[Cale_Knight]

To each their own, but I can't help but hear/read feck and shet as mild exclamations rather than the real deal.

Sometimes you want the real deal and sometimes you just want a mild exclamation.

I use both, according to my mood.

[Rhyden]

Feck is more comical.
Fuck is more serious.

[Forest Junkie]

So, what's the general consensus here folks?

If you use 'fuck' you rock, and if you use 'feck' you're a pussy?

[Malken]

If you use 'fuck' you rock, and if you use 'feck' you're a pussy?

Or a dwarf. (Not that dwarves are pussies, but ALL dwarves are also scottish.)